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Because EU residents allowed them to continue to legislate themselves into irrelevancy. Nobody spoke against GDPR, which is an utterly toothless annoyance. GDP
by 0xy 4y ago
Because EU residents allowed them to continue to legislate themselves into irrelevancy. Nobody spoke against GDPR, which is an utterly toothless annoyance.
GDPR achieved nothing notable for data security and privacy, except by spamming cookie prompts and training users to accept anything.
The EU is an incompetent, lumbering, bureaucratic hellscape. It expanded FAR beyond its original remit of a customs union, and in turn created horrific legislation and usurped the power of national governments to centralize power in Brussels.
The EU used its newly seized power to crush all free speech, freedom of expression and dissent, along with explicitly campaigning for censorship. [1]
[1] https://www.npr.org/2022/04/23/1094485542/eu-law-big-tech-hate-speech-disinformation https://www.npr.org/2022/04/23/1094485542/eu-law-big-tech-ha...
- derefr 4y agoGDPR has forced many large companies to implement data retention policies enabling the (eventual) purge of data related to closed accounts. Before GDPR, account data was usually just kept around forever.
- feeela 4y agoOnly tru for those european nations, who hadn't that in their national laws already.
- probably_wrong 4y agoI got Google to reinstate my locked account thanks to the GDPR. Conversely, my brother in a non-european country was locked out of his Apple account and is SOL because his country doesn't have the same protections I do and Apple can simply ignore him. And the fact that companies have to tell me how they are tracking me has been eye-opening. As far as I'm concerned, GDPR is great.
- anonyfox 4y agoThe most important critique of GDPR is actually that its not enforced more often/strictly and that the maximum damages are _still_ too low to make many companies actually care.
- stametseater 4y agoOnly techbros in the mass surveillance industry get bent out of shape over GDPR. I have never once heard a single person outside this description complain about it. It's a pet peeve for peeping programmers.